abacab

Everyone should be primed with the $1400 stimulant upon your return Larry! ?

I think the OP abandoned this thread back in January.

Imagine what Total Studio could be with IKM, NI, & iZotope together. That would make for one hell of a Product-Portal-Access-Manager! ?

I have the free Ample stuff and a paid Bass. Never had an issue with stuck keys.

Sounds like it may be a MIDI error, like note off events being dropped somewhere along the way.

And the full price of the last option is $59. That ain't free, but it does a lot for the money!

https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/3-Studio-Tools/93-Music-Theory-Tools/6439-Scaler-2

4 minutes ago, Stromkraft said:

if you don't have an account you will not be able to activate it.

You would need to have both the serial number and activation code. Both would be available in your old account, but there's no way to get a new one.

42 minutes ago, Fleer said:

Haven’t ever plugged it in yet. Go figure. 

Surely you jest! That thing was legendary, back when ROMplers ruled!

I've got a Roland JV-880, JV-1080, and XP-30 (JV-2080 based). Although they sound good, that sample ROM is no match for the 350+ GB I've got tied up in IKM samples for SampleTank, Syntronik, and Miroslav.

1 hour ago, John Maar said:

I hadn't thought about Scaler 2 for bass lines. It's a terrific plugin. I installed it, along with the Captain plugins, on my new laptop. Auto Theory, InstaChord, InstaScale and others of that type that I tried out, did not make the cut. Didn't get used on my old desktop, so why bother? Scaler 2 is less expensive, but I like all of the different Rhythms available in Captain Deep. That said, I need to go back I look at Scaler from a bass line perspective. ?

Scaler 2.2 has added a new Bass Mode, with over 100 basslines categorized and capable of responding to your chords.

Scaler 2 is another option for creating chord progressions and bass lines. https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/plugin-boutique-scaler-2

Now with key and scale detection for MIDI and audio.

So that code gets the S1 Pro 5 upgrade down to around the $100 mark.

That's pretty much what I paid for it last December at Best Service. Haven't noticed any deals yet going lower...

1 hour ago, RummieGit said:

@abacab  and  @aidan o driscoll

I would like to inform you briefly that I have found the error in the standalone file /AIR Drum Synth 500.  There was a conflict between the Steinberg driver (ASIO Generic Lower Latency) and the ASIO driver of my M-Audio interface. Probably the DrumSynth wanted to start with the Steinberg driver and searched the driver in my interface in vain.

In the end I am very happy now.

Thanks again for your help and
best regards
RGit

Hey RGit,

Many others have discovered that if you are using ASIO, you should only have ONE version of ASIO installed on your machine, to avoid conflicts. Some hosts have a hard time making a distinction if they have more that one choice.

That Steinbug generic thingy got my Cakewalk all upset once, as I already had installed an M-Audio ASIO driver. Steinbug software seems to install that driver along with their demo software for some reason. On a side note, I use ASIO4ALL on my laptop with the on-board Realtek audio chip, but as a tip, I would caution against mixing that one with a real ASIO driver on the same machine as well.

Glad you got it sorted!

50 minutes ago, Fleer said:

I’m still on a JV-1080 ...

I've got one of those sitting in a closet. Haven't plugged it in for over 10 years...

Virtual instruments FTW!

3 hours ago, craigb said:

Whoa!  Just stumbled on this!

Original ADVENTURE game on 8" floppy for "only" $599.99!

I should still have a couple 8" floppies saved in storage for kicks.  Heck, one may actually have the original ADVENTURE game since I helped port it to the HP (from Unix) back in 1978!

"A hollow voice says 'PLUGH!'"

 

We had a CP/M based microcomputer in our ops center in the 80's that was dedicated for some network management tasks. On night shift we would fire up Adventure on that. Seemed amazing at the time... ?

Do you think NI will still be having a 50% off sale this summer?

I've got the Cakewalk version and the IK T-RackS version.

I think you only need one.

13 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

Well, I, um, know this guy who is a CbB user, and he used his Cakewalk login to acquire Rapture Session, then he downloaded and installed the SONAR trial and noticed that the SONAR trial came with all these "Factory Pro" instruments that would work with the version of Rapture Session that came with Home Studio. So he carefully studied the file structure for Rapture's instruments folder and copied them all over and it worked!

He tells me that you have to be one steely-eyed Cakewalk man to pull it off, though, it has to be done just right, and he messed it up a couple of times before nailing it.

But yes, if you have a valid Cakewalk Inc. login, install your product with Command Center and it will work great.

I agree. "Moving" Cakewalk applications to another computer, rather than installing can be dicey. Sometimes the Windows registry is involved. So steely-eyed is a must!

Moving things around on the same computer is best done with directory junctions. For a new computer, a fresh install is the recommended method.

You will need to download and install Rapture Session from the legacy Cakewalk Command Center to get the goods.  Atmospheric, Guitars, Keys, Orchestral, and Synths sound banks were available there as individual installers. The thing with most Cakewalk instruments is that they required an installer to get everything lined up, and I never heard of success just copying files to another computer.

Rapture Session would also import sound content from Dimension Pro and Rapture classic, if presently installed at the time of Rapture Session install.

So you will need to get your new computer all hooked up to Command Center and your old Cakewalk account to access it. Good luck!

Then again, I wouldn't expend too much energy on troubleshooting an audio interface for a $10 plugin, if everything else is working acceptably with it! ?

AIR has been notorious lame recently regarding support and bug fixes. Drum Synth 500 originally had an MSRP of $199, but online retailers have been listing it at $129 -$149.

Since they appear now to be dumping it for $9.99, I doubt that they have many tech support engineers sitting around to deal with compatibility issues. I  realize that may sound cynical, but I have been waiting for several years for usability updates for the AIR instrument collection that I own. Their stuff is a great buy with good sounds, if it works. But it's cheap enough to toss if it doesn't.

Good luck!

56 minutes ago, RummieGit said:

My interface is from M-Audio, Fast Track Ultra 8R. The interface is a bit older but still serves its purpose.The drivers have not been updated for a few years, but still work fine under Win10 for recording and playback, for example. But maybe this is where the bug is???

 

Not saying anything except those are some very old drivers for that Ultra. I had an old M-Audio FW 410 that I finally retired last year as the last driver version released for that was for Windows 7. It technically would work for me under Windows 10, but I occasionally got BSODs caused by the M-Audio driver.

Found this regarding the Ultra drivers. https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/download/Fast-Track-Ultra-8R-Drivers

Great echo chamber here folks. No OP in sight!

That Xtyles looks great for late night entertainment! Like if you have insomnia, can't sleep, and need something to kill time with until you can go back to sleep...

For $11.99 I'm sure it beats counting sheep! ?

41 minutes ago, Shane_B. said:

*Putting on my Spock ears* Only 149MB to be precise Captain.

A rounding error, LOL!

Maybe yours was a "Sphere" version. I seem to recall my download being around ~250MB.

Edit: Just located my Studio One 5.2 installer download file. It is 195,626 KB. Or 195.626 MB, to be precise.

Audiofier Xtyles is 11.99. You save $47.

Which side of the fence does that fall into? ?

Edit: Full Kontakt 5.8.1+ required. Not for Player.

https://audioplugin.deals/

Made you look again! ?

1 minute ago, Tim Lloyd said:

I know this is an old thread, but I am also finding that CbB is taking a long time to load. For me, it seems connected with the startup screen that lists redent projects to choose from. One of my projects is on OneDrive, and when I launch the program I get a pop-up message from OneDrive telling me Cakewalk.exe is downloading from OneDrive - in this case a 580 MB cwb file which takes a while to download from the cloud. Why Cakewalk would need to download files just to present the list on startup, I don't know.

So if people have large files from previous projects, maybe that's why they are experiencing a long wait while these files load. I've tried to find a way to delete these projects from the list of recent files, but can't find a way. Maybe someone out there knows how to do this.

I had an issue where I was using my old Sonar templates folder path for CbB, and for some unknown reason after I added a new template, that started causing slow load times in CbB. Solved that by moving all of my templates to the Cakewalk Core path and updated CbB preferences for the template path. Load times back to normal now!

So no telling what all Cakewalk is looking for at startup. Probably just try ruling things out.